A review by sarai0410
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

You know that feeling that starts to bubble within yourself when you start a book and so quickly you can sense that the words on the page are transforming themselves into something that will grip your heart and make you fall in love with storytelling all over again? That is exactly what I felt ~30 pages into The Lost Story.

It's going to sound dramatic (and it kinda is tbh) but I truly don't have any words for how beautiful this story is; how gripping the characters and their relationships are; how magical the world felt.

Go in blind; go in looking for magic - I promise you'll find it.

In other words, a hero on a quest for the Holy Grail isn’t looking for the Holy Grail. The hero is trying to find himself, and the only way he can find his true self is by going on a journey, being tried and tested until he knows if he is a hero in name only or a hero in truth. And that’s why the world has Holy Grails—not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes. 

All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.

Every falling star in Shanandoah / 5 🌠